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Happy Saturday morning...
Oh Annette, I am so sorry about Joey....it hope it can be resolved some w/o having to let him go. I am such an animal lover, especially cats, and I don't know what I'd do w/o my Fluffy girl! I can relate about the anxiety attacks, but since WLS I don't have them and have stopped taking the meds for them.
Up at 6:30 this morning (a big late for me), no house to clean today as my cleaning angel was here yesterday, so
am busy with last minute projects. Made PB fudge on Thursday for a couple that I give the whole batch to every year....they are special friends and she is home bound, so they are very appreciative, however,, I do it out of love, so I'm the one *****aps the rewards.
First batch of spiced nuts are almost done....have several more batch to make.. One load of laundry washed dried and put away....and guess I am the answering machine for my son's business....a lady locked herself out of her house and her car keys were inside so she called me and I got ahold of him to go and get her unlocked.....wonder if I'll get a kick back......NOT!
Anyway, have a little more cross stitching to do and towels will be all finished.
Have a blessed day and stay safe and warm!
Hugs,
Pat R.
Oh Annette, I am so sorry about Joey....it hope it can be resolved some w/o having to let him go. I am such an animal lover, especially cats, and I don't know what I'd do w/o my Fluffy girl! I can relate about the anxiety attacks, but since WLS I don't have them and have stopped taking the meds for them.
Up at 6:30 this morning (a big late for me), no house to clean today as my cleaning angel was here yesterday, so
am busy with last minute projects. Made PB fudge on Thursday for a couple that I give the whole batch to every year....they are special friends and she is home bound, so they are very appreciative, however,, I do it out of love, so I'm the one *****aps the rewards.
First batch of spiced nuts are almost done....have several more batch to make.. One load of laundry washed dried and put away....and guess I am the answering machine for my son's business....a lady locked herself out of her house and her car keys were inside so she called me and I got ahold of him to go and get her unlocked.....wonder if I'll get a kick back......NOT!
Anyway, have a little more cross stitching to do and towels will be all finished.
Have a blessed day and stay safe and warm!
Hugs,
Pat R.
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Good Morning Annette, Margo, Grammylew, Connine, Teresa and all! Today starts the beginning of my Christmas celebration. When I got up this morning my son was asleep on the couch having driven home from college last night. I did not really excpect him until late afternoon today. I hadn't wrapped his gifts but I doubt he went into the dining room.
This afternoon I pick my daughter up at the airport. The holidays can begin, my babies are home. SIL will drive in from Chicago on Christmas eve. I hope the roads are OK then. He is bringing their new puppy. I have several gifts I have to buy today. I also have to wrap gifts. Tomorrow DD and I are baking and decorating. Wednesday the rest of the family arrive.
Connie, so glad you are having a good time with you kids and gradbabies. Annette, I will be thinking about you and Joey. I have a cat that is the "cats meow" around here. It is amazing how much you can love and animal. Anyone hear how Eileen is? Hope you all have a wonderful week-end.
This afternoon I pick my daughter up at the airport. The holidays can begin, my babies are home. SIL will drive in from Chicago on Christmas eve. I hope the roads are OK then. He is bringing their new puppy. I have several gifts I have to buy today. I also have to wrap gifts. Tomorrow DD and I are baking and decorating. Wednesday the rest of the family arrive.
Connie, so glad you are having a good time with you kids and gradbabies. Annette, I will be thinking about you and Joey. I have a cat that is the "cats meow" around here. It is amazing how much you can love and animal. Anyone hear how Eileen is? Hope you all have a wonderful week-end.
I have one word today "BRR"
Thank goodness for flannel jammies.
Wind chill is supposed to be a minus 30.............
Yesterday morning I got a call at 4:15 am my son was on his way home from work and went in the ditch 4 miles from his house (he lives out in the country). The weather was horrible it had rained, snowed,sleeted and the wind was howling. He needed the number for a tow truck. Then another phone call he needed a credit card number and didn't have one on him. That was the end of sleep for both of us. As soon as I got to work I bought him and his wife a AAA membership for Christmas.
I still have shopping to do for my husband and daughter.
I want to get my daughter a "pink tool kit" I saw one in a flyer but think I can remember which store. We went to a bunch of stores last night and no luck. I have one more store to go to and then if no luck will order it online and pay expediated shipping.
I am doing lousy on goodies this week. I need another fill but can't get in till Jan 6th. :(
We are taking my 3 great nephews to a free movie this afternoon and to see Santa while their mom shops. They are all spending the night so they can go to church with us in the morning. I am going to have the boys bake cookies ( I have those tubs of frozen cookie dough that I have bought from school fund raisings) then I will have them wrap them up in tins for their mom and their grandma for Christmas. They should enjoy that and it will keep them occupied.
Stay warm everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
Barb
Thank goodness for flannel jammies.
Wind chill is supposed to be a minus 30.............
Yesterday morning I got a call at 4:15 am my son was on his way home from work and went in the ditch 4 miles from his house (he lives out in the country). The weather was horrible it had rained, snowed,sleeted and the wind was howling. He needed the number for a tow truck. Then another phone call he needed a credit card number and didn't have one on him. That was the end of sleep for both of us. As soon as I got to work I bought him and his wife a AAA membership for Christmas.
I still have shopping to do for my husband and daughter.
I want to get my daughter a "pink tool kit" I saw one in a flyer but think I can remember which store. We went to a bunch of stores last night and no luck. I have one more store to go to and then if no luck will order it online and pay expediated shipping.
I am doing lousy on goodies this week. I need another fill but can't get in till Jan 6th. :(
We are taking my 3 great nephews to a free movie this afternoon and to see Santa while their mom shops. They are all spending the night so they can go to church with us in the morning. I am going to have the boys bake cookies ( I have those tubs of frozen cookie dough that I have bought from school fund raisings) then I will have them wrap them up in tins for their mom and their grandma for Christmas. They should enjoy that and it will keep them occupied.
Stay warm everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
Barb
Happy Saturday to each and everyone. A very special hug to you, Annette.... You had a horrible day yesterday and I'm sorry about that. The love of an animal is like no other in my opinion. I will keep yours in my thoughts and prayers. I hope you rest quietly today and that it helps. Take care of yourself.
Busy day for me yesterday -- eye exam, then new glasses. My grandson had his ear surgery and all went well. At 2 1/2 they were having trouble keeping him quiet and he got one nose bleed early on. We went to visit and he was his old self. You'd never know he'd had a procedure that morning. Amazing. I took a couple of warm outfits as a get well present. He could care less but his mother liked them. Came home and the neighbor's 5-year old little girl came by to sing the song, "I Want a Hippopotomus For Christmas" and we had such a good time singing that together. Local radio station has been playing that so I knew most of the words. We put a good show on for hubby and her mother. Thankfully, not a camera in sight. Phew!
Going to clean house today if it kills me. I've put it off for so long but it's time to deep clean. Scrub floors. Move furniture to vacuum. Do the windows. I have to. I have to. I have to.
Have a wonderful Saturday.
Kathi
Busy day for me yesterday -- eye exam, then new glasses. My grandson had his ear surgery and all went well. At 2 1/2 they were having trouble keeping him quiet and he got one nose bleed early on. We went to visit and he was his old self. You'd never know he'd had a procedure that morning. Amazing. I took a couple of warm outfits as a get well present. He could care less but his mother liked them. Came home and the neighbor's 5-year old little girl came by to sing the song, "I Want a Hippopotomus For Christmas" and we had such a good time singing that together. Local radio station has been playing that so I knew most of the words. We put a good show on for hubby and her mother. Thankfully, not a camera in sight. Phew!
Going to clean house today if it kills me. I've put it off for so long but it's time to deep clean. Scrub floors. Move furniture to vacuum. Do the windows. I have to. I have to. I have to.
Have a wonderful Saturday.
Kathi
Good morning to you, Annette and my other OFF siblings. I am so grateful to have siblings that I picked for myself and I guess you are all it.
Annette, my heart is breaking for you and for Joey. I know it is so hard to let go of our beloved furbabies. But remember when they go before us they are waiting for us at the rainbow bridge and we all go in to heaven together. My prayers for you all stay in my heart and on my lips for God to hear. Please keep us posted on he is doing.
Today is a sunny day. It is so pretty with the sun shining off some of the ice on the snow on the ground. I think that we better enjoy the high temps today since tomorrow and Monday is suppose to be a high of 5 and 7 respectively. The nights temps are below zero and so it is a couple of sweatshirt and heavy comforters night coming around this house.
I did some wrapping last night before Bill came home from work. I haven't "wrapped" anything since this year is the first year for nothing but gift bags. I liked it and that is for darn sure. I remember a time when I loved wrapping the gifts but the last several years I have dreaded doing it. Now I have the wonderful bags to do my work for me. I could just kiss the inventor of those fantastic things. I got the bags under the tree and it looks just as nice as the gifts complete with the bows did.
I gave orders to Misty to not get under the tree anymore since I have the gifts under them now. I don't know why I even bothered to waste my breath on her. She is getting under the tree and looking at each and every thing under there. And then when she is done doing that she proceeds with the act of working on "eating" the Christmas tree. She is certainly a little brat. But I guess every brat needs someone to love them and I guess Daddy and I are the ones picked for her. It's a job that someone has to do so it might as well be us. She makes the job easy to do too. At least most of the time.
I have some last minute shopping to do. I need to get some gift cards and something else for Bill, then a nice blouse for my neighbor. After that I am finished! I am so looking forward to that. I have really put it off this year but then again I just have had to idea what to get people this year. I must have the shoppers version of writer's block.
I better get going. I am sitting here watching........yes.........I Love Lucy.....after all it is Saturday morning! I am going to finish watching this and eat some breakfast. I got up late....8:30, so everything is behind.
I am sending love and hugs to all along with special prayers. I hope that everyone keeps warm and safe and has a wonderful Saturday!!!!
Annette, my heart is breaking for you and for Joey. I know it is so hard to let go of our beloved furbabies. But remember when they go before us they are waiting for us at the rainbow bridge and we all go in to heaven together. My prayers for you all stay in my heart and on my lips for God to hear. Please keep us posted on he is doing.
Today is a sunny day. It is so pretty with the sun shining off some of the ice on the snow on the ground. I think that we better enjoy the high temps today since tomorrow and Monday is suppose to be a high of 5 and 7 respectively. The nights temps are below zero and so it is a couple of sweatshirt and heavy comforters night coming around this house.
I did some wrapping last night before Bill came home from work. I haven't "wrapped" anything since this year is the first year for nothing but gift bags. I liked it and that is for darn sure. I remember a time when I loved wrapping the gifts but the last several years I have dreaded doing it. Now I have the wonderful bags to do my work for me. I could just kiss the inventor of those fantastic things. I got the bags under the tree and it looks just as nice as the gifts complete with the bows did.
I gave orders to Misty to not get under the tree anymore since I have the gifts under them now. I don't know why I even bothered to waste my breath on her. She is getting under the tree and looking at each and every thing under there. And then when she is done doing that she proceeds with the act of working on "eating" the Christmas tree. She is certainly a little brat. But I guess every brat needs someone to love them and I guess Daddy and I are the ones picked for her. It's a job that someone has to do so it might as well be us. She makes the job easy to do too. At least most of the time.
I have some last minute shopping to do. I need to get some gift cards and something else for Bill, then a nice blouse for my neighbor. After that I am finished! I am so looking forward to that. I have really put it off this year but then again I just have had to idea what to get people this year. I must have the shoppers version of writer's block.
I better get going. I am sitting here watching........yes.........I Love Lucy.....after all it is Saturday morning! I am going to finish watching this and eat some breakfast. I got up late....8:30, so everything is behind.
I am sending love and hugs to all along with special prayers. I hope that everyone keeps warm and safe and has a wonderful Saturday!!!!
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Aloha and good Saturday morning Big Sis and all my OFF family,
Annette, my heart goes out to you and your sweet Joey. I haven't had to experience the loss of a kitty yet through dying, but I can just imagine that it is horrible. I had to leave my two kitties, Maui and Sophie, in Portland, Oregon when I moved to Maui because of the LONG quarantine at that time. It was four months they would have had to be in a cage in Honolulu!! I couldn't do that to them, so I left them with my son and they were eventually adopted by a lady who had a farm, and I heard they love it there. Still hard to leave them....very!
My cleaning angel came yesterday and did a marvelous job making my little home shine again. NOW I feel like I can get busy and finish wrapping gifts and getting organized for holidays and then trip to Calif. in January.
I just spoke to my Calif. son and they are just leaving to drive from Santa Cruz to Portland. They could NOT have picked a worse time. There are snow warnings all up and down the west coast from northern Calif. to Northern Washington! I am going to worry about them all day. It's a 15 hour drive on GOOD conditions...I wonder how long they will take. They have three babies in the car!! My poor son.........he always gets these gigs that he has to perform. My DIL, an energizer bunny, makes all these plans and my son has to do the hard work. Once they get to Portland I'm sure they will have a wonderful time...it's the getting there that has me worried. They have rented a fancy condo on the river and will be having tons of friends and family visiting them there.
My ex husband, my boys' father, called yesterday and he had almost decided not to drive to Portland from Calif. He said he just didn't think it was worth it. I told him if he does, he should caravan with the kids so at least they could help each other out if they get into trouble.
Yesterday I think I did too much running around while my cleaning angel was here. I went to at least six places, and by the 5th I was really feeling the pain in my incision when I got into and out of the car. I came home and laid down and plan on staying close to home today wrapping gifts and making calls. It's a beautiful day....it was 84 yesterday!! The whales are here.....life is good.
Here's hoping you all have a wonderful, productive, happy Saturday. LOVE is what Christmas is all about.......and I hope you feel it deeply from every direction. Feel it from me!!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
Annette, my heart goes out to you and your sweet Joey. I haven't had to experience the loss of a kitty yet through dying, but I can just imagine that it is horrible. I had to leave my two kitties, Maui and Sophie, in Portland, Oregon when I moved to Maui because of the LONG quarantine at that time. It was four months they would have had to be in a cage in Honolulu!! I couldn't do that to them, so I left them with my son and they were eventually adopted by a lady who had a farm, and I heard they love it there. Still hard to leave them....very!
My cleaning angel came yesterday and did a marvelous job making my little home shine again. NOW I feel like I can get busy and finish wrapping gifts and getting organized for holidays and then trip to Calif. in January.
I just spoke to my Calif. son and they are just leaving to drive from Santa Cruz to Portland. They could NOT have picked a worse time. There are snow warnings all up and down the west coast from northern Calif. to Northern Washington! I am going to worry about them all day. It's a 15 hour drive on GOOD conditions...I wonder how long they will take. They have three babies in the car!! My poor son.........he always gets these gigs that he has to perform. My DIL, an energizer bunny, makes all these plans and my son has to do the hard work. Once they get to Portland I'm sure they will have a wonderful time...it's the getting there that has me worried. They have rented a fancy condo on the river and will be having tons of friends and family visiting them there.
My ex husband, my boys' father, called yesterday and he had almost decided not to drive to Portland from Calif. He said he just didn't think it was worth it. I told him if he does, he should caravan with the kids so at least they could help each other out if they get into trouble.
Yesterday I think I did too much running around while my cleaning angel was here. I went to at least six places, and by the 5th I was really feeling the pain in my incision when I got into and out of the car. I came home and laid down and plan on staying close to home today wrapping gifts and making calls. It's a beautiful day....it was 84 yesterday!! The whales are here.....life is good.
Here's hoping you all have a wonderful, productive, happy Saturday. LOVE is what Christmas is all about.......and I hope you feel it deeply from every direction. Feel it from me!!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
Hi Annette and my OFF family:
Annette, I'm so sorry to hear about Joey ... I know just how you feel ... it is so hard to let our furbabies go. My former cat sitter Jeanine called this morning and said she is coming to get Diva this morning instead of Sunday. I am not really ready for that, but I know it's best for Diva, and I hope she will come back to me healthy and retrained. I want her back ... I love her so much and it is breaking my heart to let her go, but at least I will get her back after my surgery. It's just a day sooner than I expected.
Yesterday was a really screwy day. Seems like I'm losing things right and left. First, we had so much snow yesterday ... at least a foot I think. My driveway wasn't plowed, or they plowed it early and we got more snow after that, so it was difficult getting out of the driveway to get to work. Plus, I had to retrieve my garbage can, so I had to tromp through the high snow to get it ... not easy on a bum knee. I was all wet by the time I got to work. Then I gave my front door key to Gayle, who's going to look after the cats while I'm in the hospital. I had put my drinks in the car (I store them in the garage) and forgot to put them in the lunch bucket (cooler) to bring into the office. So I had to go back to the car to get them. Well, later when I went to go home, I didn't have my car key. I had a spare, so I used that, but I couldn't figure out where I lost my car key. I called back to the office and my coworker Tom looked around my desk for it but couldn't find it. It has to be in three places ... inside my car (couldn't find it there), by my car in the snow (won't find it there until the snow melts) or in the office ... I'll ask tonight when I go to work ... maybe the security guard found it or someone turned it in. At least I have one spare key. I need to get one I can put on my key chain, though ... this one has the top (plastic or rubber) broken off it.
Knee, of course, hurts like hell ... I am so ready for surgery and not anxious or scared or anything, just like last time and my bariatric surgery. I just hope he gets in there and finds something is wrong ... then I want him to come in and apologize for doubting my pain. I took a vicodin when I got home last night, iced it, went to bed ... then got up at 5 and had to take another vicodin I was in so much pain. Can't take anything while I'm at work, so I just suffer through. It's so hard to get through the day in so much pain.
Talked to some coworkers about the new desk last night ... Meegan, who will be my new boss, found out they won't be taking 50-60 on the new desk like she told us. Yikes, that's not good news. Tom and Jerry (yes, real names, not just the drink for the holidays) are staying, not taking the buyout ... Tom is around my age, Jerry's in his late 30s or early 40s but has young twin boys. I think I need to be thinking about finding a new career ... but what? I have done nothing in my life but work on newspapers (other than the brief time I was a secretary, and I hated that). I love working with words. I am a writer/editor, and it's what I do best. I even took a career assessment test once when I was getting burned out as a sports writer, and it said my best careers were in communications, so I guess this is what I was meant to do. I think we all are born with certain gfits, given by God, and we must use them to the best of our abilities. My gift is communication, writing, editing ... I can't imagine doing another job. I just have to figure out some other way of using it. I love newspapers ... I love the deadline pressure, the camaraderie of the newsroom, knowing things before others do.
Well, it's 1 p.m., I should get myself going, but I have to wait to get in the shower for Jeanine to get here. I'm going to miss Diva so much. I hope Jeanine can help her.
Annette, I'm so sorry to hear about Joey ... I know just how you feel ... it is so hard to let our furbabies go. My former cat sitter Jeanine called this morning and said she is coming to get Diva this morning instead of Sunday. I am not really ready for that, but I know it's best for Diva, and I hope she will come back to me healthy and retrained. I want her back ... I love her so much and it is breaking my heart to let her go, but at least I will get her back after my surgery. It's just a day sooner than I expected.
Yesterday was a really screwy day. Seems like I'm losing things right and left. First, we had so much snow yesterday ... at least a foot I think. My driveway wasn't plowed, or they plowed it early and we got more snow after that, so it was difficult getting out of the driveway to get to work. Plus, I had to retrieve my garbage can, so I had to tromp through the high snow to get it ... not easy on a bum knee. I was all wet by the time I got to work. Then I gave my front door key to Gayle, who's going to look after the cats while I'm in the hospital. I had put my drinks in the car (I store them in the garage) and forgot to put them in the lunch bucket (cooler) to bring into the office. So I had to go back to the car to get them. Well, later when I went to go home, I didn't have my car key. I had a spare, so I used that, but I couldn't figure out where I lost my car key. I called back to the office and my coworker Tom looked around my desk for it but couldn't find it. It has to be in three places ... inside my car (couldn't find it there), by my car in the snow (won't find it there until the snow melts) or in the office ... I'll ask tonight when I go to work ... maybe the security guard found it or someone turned it in. At least I have one spare key. I need to get one I can put on my key chain, though ... this one has the top (plastic or rubber) broken off it.
Knee, of course, hurts like hell ... I am so ready for surgery and not anxious or scared or anything, just like last time and my bariatric surgery. I just hope he gets in there and finds something is wrong ... then I want him to come in and apologize for doubting my pain. I took a vicodin when I got home last night, iced it, went to bed ... then got up at 5 and had to take another vicodin I was in so much pain. Can't take anything while I'm at work, so I just suffer through. It's so hard to get through the day in so much pain.
Talked to some coworkers about the new desk last night ... Meegan, who will be my new boss, found out they won't be taking 50-60 on the new desk like she told us. Yikes, that's not good news. Tom and Jerry (yes, real names, not just the drink for the holidays) are staying, not taking the buyout ... Tom is around my age, Jerry's in his late 30s or early 40s but has young twin boys. I think I need to be thinking about finding a new career ... but what? I have done nothing in my life but work on newspapers (other than the brief time I was a secretary, and I hated that). I love working with words. I am a writer/editor, and it's what I do best. I even took a career assessment test once when I was getting burned out as a sports writer, and it said my best careers were in communications, so I guess this is what I was meant to do. I think we all are born with certain gfits, given by God, and we must use them to the best of our abilities. My gift is communication, writing, editing ... I can't imagine doing another job. I just have to figure out some other way of using it. I love newspapers ... I love the deadline pressure, the camaraderie of the newsroom, knowing things before others do.
Well, it's 1 p.m., I should get myself going, but I have to wait to get in the shower for Jeanine to get here. I'm going to miss Diva so much. I hope Jeanine can help her.
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on 12/20/08 2:36 am - Park Forest, IL
on 12/20/08 2:36 am - Park Forest, IL
Hello Annette and my dear OFF friends,
Annette, so sorry to hear about your difficult day. Big Hugs to you. I already forgot what else I read.............I am taking so many meds right now that I'm having trouble concentrating.
I have been fighting whatever my granddaughters have had for the past week or so and Wednesday, I came down with a full blown laryngitis and upper respiratory thingy. I have asthma which flared up so Thursday night Earl had to call my doctor. He called in some prescriptions for me. Started antibiotics on Friday am, today everything is starting to loosen up and my voice has started to come back. At least my throat isn't sore now. Today Jen had to call the girls pediatrician, he wanted to see them but before she could get there the nurse called back ,the doctor hurt his back and had to cancel appts. He did call in antibiotics for them though. Cheyanne's glands and throat are so swollen, I hope she doesn't have strep. Both of them are running fevers again..
Think I'll go have another cup of tea and then take a nap.
Hugs, Paulette
Annette, so sorry to hear about your difficult day. Big Hugs to you. I already forgot what else I read.............I am taking so many meds right now that I'm having trouble concentrating.
I have been fighting whatever my granddaughters have had for the past week or so and Wednesday, I came down with a full blown laryngitis and upper respiratory thingy. I have asthma which flared up so Thursday night Earl had to call my doctor. He called in some prescriptions for me. Started antibiotics on Friday am, today everything is starting to loosen up and my voice has started to come back. At least my throat isn't sore now. Today Jen had to call the girls pediatrician, he wanted to see them but before she could get there the nurse called back ,the doctor hurt his back and had to cancel appts. He did call in antibiotics for them though. Cheyanne's glands and throat are so swollen, I hope she doesn't have strep. Both of them are running fevers again..
Think I'll go have another cup of tea and then take a nap.
Hugs, Paulette
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